JAMB Intensifies Capacity Building On Admission Processes, Trains Admission Officers Ahead Of The 2024 Academic Year

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JAMB INTENSIFIES CAPACITY BUILDING ON ADMISSION PROCESSES, TRAINS ADMISSION OFFICERS AHEAD OF THE 2024 ACADEMIC YEAR

As a part of the programmes heralding the 2024 Policy Meeting, the Board has organised a training session for all admission officers of Nigerian tertiary institutions.

The capacity-building exercise, which took place at Idris Abdukadri Auditorium, National Universities Commission (NUC), on Wednesday, 17th July, 2024, was organised to update the knowledge of the officers handling admission processes in the country’s ivory towers.

Welcoming the participants, the Director of Admissions Department, Mr. Mohammed Babaji Ahmed, revealed that the programme was organised to consolidate on the gains recorded in the quality and efficient service delivery in admission process, stressing that the Board’s transparent platform for admission – the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) has not only been upgraded to be a communication channel between the Board, institutions and the candidates but has also incorporated the processing of non-regular admissions, undisclosed admissions as well as grading of Direct Entry (DE) results of the applicants, while stressing that CAPS had been designed to be user-friendly.

In his remarks, the Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, reiterated that enhancing efficiency was one of the reasons for organising the training for the participants, saying training was a veritable means of improving efficiency in service delivery, particularly when technology was involved.

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According to the Board’s helmsman, “…with the spate of turnovers of change of Registrars and Vice Chancellors in our tertiary institutions, capacity deficit will set in without constant training. You should, however, not only come for regular training and retraining, but try as much as possible to also train yourselves from resources and advisories placed on our website.”

Furthermore, Prof. Oloyede decried the ineffective use of technology by some tertiary institutions in the country, citing instances of some Heads of Institutions and their Registrars using personal email addresses in official communications.

Cautioning the admission officers against initiating illegal admissions, he said, “You should be careful not engage in sharp practices as no illegal admission could be given without the knowledge of admission officers. I, therefore, appeal to you to join hands together with us to eliminate corruption in the admission system.”